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WordPress WP Survey And Quiz Tool Plugin "action" Cross-Site Scripting
Release Date: 2010-11-08 Last Update: 2011-01-06 Views: 2,317
Secunia Advisory SA42196
Where:
From remote
Impact:
Cross Site Scripting,
Solution Status:
Unpatched
CVE Reference(s):
Description
John Leitch has discovered a vulnerability in the WP Survey And Quiz Tool plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "action" parameter in wp-content/plugins/wp-survey-and-quiz-tool/pages/admin/surveys/create.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.2.1. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
Provided and/or discovered by:
John Leitch
Original Advisory:
http://www.johnleitch.net/Vulnerabilities/WordPress.Survery.And.Quiz.Tool.1.2.1.Reflected.Cross-site.Scripting/57
Deep Links:
Links available to Secunia VIM customers
Do you have additional information related to this advisory?
Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com
Subject: WordPress WP Survey And Quiz Tool Plugin "action" Cross-Site Scripting
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